I feel distinctly uncomfortable when I don’t have my camera with me. You never know when you’ll see something worth shooting, and today I had such a moment. This is Robert Garside. He is the first confirmed man to run round the world. Yes, the whole world - 29 countries across 6 continents!

He was presented with his certificate this morning, and as I was passing, I saw a couple of photographers (and in fact, one of them was at the launch of The Apprentice last week!), so pulled out my camera and snapped a couple of shots.

Now, this isn’t a wonderful work of art, but it’s not a bad shot, and it was only because I had my camera with me, and I know how to use it inside out, that I was able to grab a decent shot.

So, always have your camera with you, RTFM, and learn to become proficient with your kit under any circumstance.
Edit: Not to put the dampener on his celebrations, but this guardian article throws more doubt on the validity of his achievement. I’m certainly suprised that lots of footage of him running in front of landmarks around the world is enough evidence - he could have simply had a moped around the corner, and gone round the world on that!